Gillett to North Dakota, Strimlinger Opts Out

#1 posting 6.28.2006
Your Daily Dose of Girls Basketball

VERBALS/SIGNINGS
Kirstie Gillett, Dakota Prairie has made a verbal to North Dakota. She averaged 18.5 ppg last season. Here is more from the Grand Forks Herald.

VERBALS

COACHING NEWS
MI
Sonja Duncan has been named the new coach at Cedarville.

COACHING OPENINGS

INJURY UPDATES
IOWA
With Solverson out with another ACL injury, Iowa's depth will be challenged. According to this article Megan Skouby had a near miss on Tuesday night. She was playing in a summer league game against teammate Krista Vande Venter. Here is more on the knees, Skouby, and what is happening at Iowa in the Daily Iowan.
IOWA STATE
Iowa State's head coach Bill Fennelly underwent surgury for the second straight year to remove some cancerous nodules from his vocal chords. Here is more on the situation from the Des Moines Register. Also the article talks about the injury progress of Rachel Pierson and Lyndsey Medders. Mackenzie Stirmlinger, a 2006 Miss Basketball winner from Missouri has decided to give up basketball and will not attend Iowa State. All these stories in the Fennelly article.

TOURNAMENTS
COLLEGE
IOWA
Here is a couple of early season tournaments that the Iowa Hawkeyes are scheduled to play this fall--the WBCA tournament in Kansas City beginning Nov 11, and hosting their own on Nov 17. Here is full details in the Iowa City Press Citizen.
MN
In the recent Pacesetter 9th grade state tournament Becker finished first, Perham was second, Adrian ended up in third place, and Nashwauk-Keewatin landed in fourth. Here is more on Adrian's tournament experience is recounted in the Nobles County Review.

SUMMER LEAGUES
MN
Lakeville North SL: Eagan beat Hopkins last night 41-39. Burnsville also beat Shakopee, but the score was unknown.
Standings: (prior to last night)
Lakeville North 2-0
Hopkins 2-0
Lakeville South 2-0
Eastview 1-0
Eagan 1-0
Shakopee 0-2
Burnsville 0-2
Red Wing 0-2
Prior Lake 0-2

ANOTHER SUMMER LEAGUE
Apple Valley has a league. It runs on Mondays with the championship scheduled on July 25. Teams involved are Apple Valley, Stillwater, Owatonna, Lakeville North, Eden Prairie; Rosemount, and Goodhue.

CALENDAR

AAU ROSTERS

THORPE
Coach Thorpe is off his soap box and is clacking away at his typewriter as he is gathering his thoughts on his upcoming book. Look for more on this literary event as the summer and fall progresses.

BOOK PROGRESS
As for my publications, I am knee deep in Iowa data entry. My part timer is working through the collegiate data entry. I will have more posted on the availability of these books in the fall when they are published. The rating systems have named the players of the year, in the states I cover, for the last two years. The numbers do add up.

Next up: tomorrow morning with all the news from around the basketball world